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HISTORICAL I COLLECTION
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THE VD BOOK FOR
MALE HEALTH
WORKERS
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THE VD BOOK FOR
MALE HEALTH WORKERS
TERRITORY HEAL TH SERVICES
Acknowledgement
Black and White reproductions of colour illustrations from A Colour Atlas of Venereology, Dr. A. Wisdom, Wolfe Medical Publications Ltd.
ISBN O 7245 0921 6
Published December 1983
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VD means - venerea_ l _ Disease.
In this book, three kinds will be talked about. They are:-
GONORRHOEA SYPHILIS
DONOVANOSIS
The names are a bit long and
hard to spell. Don't worry, it is
more important to learn what
the diseases look like and how
to fix them up.
GONORROEA
A person with th is sickness has yellow pus coming from his
penis. •
He might say that his penis
burns when he passes urine.
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Wome - n - can get thfs sort of VD.
A baby born to a woman with
this disease can get bad eyes.
Gonorrhoea is easy to fix up.
Give the person a bottle of three grams (3g) amoxycillin (MOX- ACI N or AMOXIL) medicine and two 500 mg probenecid (BE-
NEMID) tablets.
Remember to get the wife or
girlfriend of the man fixed up.
-- SYPHfLIS
The disease called syphilis is different from gonorrhoea.
It can first start as a sore on a
man's penis.
Sometimes there are two or three sores and they usually
don't hurt.
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- -Sores can sometimes come up on other parts of the body,
like the mouth,
- or finger.
After about one or two months the sores go away. The person thinks he is OK, but the syphilis disease gets into the blood and makes the person sick again later on.
He might get a temperature, or
a skin rash.
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SO m - e ti m - e - s -t fl e ha i r Or eyebrows fall out.
Sometimes new sores or lumps
come up around the penis or
anus.
After a while, the rashes, sores and lumps go away, but the sickness stays inside the body if
it is not fixed up right away.
After a long ti - me, it can make many parts of the body sick -
like bones and joints.
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It can even get into the liver, the kidneys and the brain.
If you think someone has got syphilis, you should first take some blood, and send it to the
hospital for a VD test.
You need to fill a 10 ml syringe with blood from the person's
arm, and put it in a plain blood , tube.
This sickness can usually be . fixed up with one injection of
penicillin.
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The aose - of LPG penicillin is 1.8 g.
Remember to take blood from someone you have fixed up for syphilis after 3 months, 6 months, and one year. It can show that the sickness has been
properly cured.
Donovanosis
A man called Donovan wrote about this venereal disease.
It can start as a small sore on the penis. It looks a bit like
syph i I is.
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The sore can spread all over the penis. •
It can sometimes
spread to the groin.
If you think a person has got this kind of VD, take them to a
doctor.
Donovanosis is best fixed up in a hospital with a tetracycline medicine.
A person with this sickness
will have to take tablets for
a long time.
Venereal diseases start when germs get into the body. Germs are so small, you can only see them with a microscope. They
are all different shapes and sizes. Here are some pictures of VD germs-
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Gonorrhoea germs
syphilis
and Donovanosis germs .
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There are plenty of germs in the pus, and on the sores of people with VD.
The germs can be passed from one person to another when they have sex together.
The medicines that you give to fix up VD slow down and kill these germs, so they cannot
spread inside the body. They
stop the VD spreading from a
sick person to a well person.
Health workers can help to stop the spread of VD.
You can tell the people in your community about the different VD sicknesses, and show them some films.
You can tell the people to come
and see you if they think they
might have VD.
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You can fix them up early with the right medicine, and stop the
sickness from spreading.
You can make sure that the wife . or girlfriend gets fixed up.
You can ask people if they
would like a blood test for
syphilis every year.
